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Dessert is a course that typically
comes at the end of a meal, usually consisting of sweet food
but sometimes of a strongly-flavored one, such as some cheeses.
The word comes from the French language as dessert and this from Old
French desservir, "to clear the table" and "to
serve." Common desserts include cakes,
cookies,
fruits,
pastries,
ice
cream, and candies.
The word dessert is most commonly
used for this course in U.S.,
Canada,
Australia,
and Ireland,
while sweet, pudding
or afters would be more typical terms in the UK
and some other Commonwealth countries, including India.
According to Debrett's,
pudding is the proper term, dessert is only to be used if the
course consists of fruit, and sweet is colloquial.
This, of course, reflects the upper-class/upper-middle-class
usage. More commonly, the words simply form a class shibboleth;
pudding being the upper-class and upper-middle-class word to use
for sweet food served after the main course, sweet, afters and
dessert being considered non-U. However, dessert is considered
slightly better than the other two, owing to many young people,
whose parents say pudding, acquiring the word from American media.[1][2]
Desserts are often eaten with a dessert
spoon, intermediate in size between a teaspoon
and a tablespoon.
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